Walidah Imarisha Presents Scars/Stars

Author, poet, educator, organizer Walidah Imarisha presents a book reading/signing for her new collection of poetry Scars/Stars. In her book Beloved, Toni Morrison describes the whip scars on a former slave’s back as a tree sprouting from her flesh. Walidah Imarisha’s first poetic collection invokes this same process of alchemy, transforming both individual and collective scars into North Stars, guideposts that center us and keep us moving in the right direction. Scars/Stars reminds us that even in ravaged earth, something beautiful can still grow.

Free and open to the public.

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